Daniel DiSalvo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Colin Powell School at The City College of New York-CUNY. He has written on American political parties, elections, labor unions, state government, and public policy for National Affairs, The Public Interest, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post. He is the author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868-2010 and Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and its Consequences.